FIRST LOOKS

For cover and seven-page preview of Locke & Key: Clockworks #6, arriving in stores on Wednesday, May 16 from IDW Publishing, CLICK HERE.

For covers and four- to five-page previews of two titles arriving in stores on May 16 from Red 5 Comics, CLICK HERE.

For covers and four-page preview from Bloodshot #1, arriving in stores on Wednesday, July 11 from Valiant, CLICK HERE.

For previews of Marvel Comics titles arriving in stores on Wednesday, May 16, CLICK HERE.

BRIEFLY

* Marvel Comics has announced The First X-Men, a five-issue mini-series by Christos Gage and Neal Adams, to launch in August.

"At the beginning, Stan (Lee) and Jack (Kirby) were experimenting," Adams said. "You had Professor X, bald and in a wheelchair. These strange kids already in costume. It seems to me like this was not the beginning of the story, but the middle.

"Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human. Why would he want to get involved in this? Maybe all this was going on before Professor X was Professor X...when Professor X was a teenager. Maybe mutant kids were getting abused by the military, by the government. Somebody would have been looking out for them, but maybe that person came to Charles Xavier, realizing he couldn't protect these kids. That was my pitch."

JULY SOLICITATIONS ROUNDUP

For previously posted July solicitations, click on the publishers' names below: